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I haven't posted a blog post since September!  Wow.  Now it's 2017!  Here's a summary of what's new with the Hamilton crew.

I found out that I'm pregnant and I've been constantly super nauseous and tired.  Luckily that is all behind me now and I'm currently 20 weeks along.

Today we got our 20 week ultrasound.  Baby Hamilton looks healthy! Yay!  We had the ultrasound tech write the gender in an envelope.  Then I gave the envelope to Julia who is going to make a cake for our gender reveal party tomorrow.  I'm so excited to see whether it's blue or pink!  Justin thinks it'll be a girl so I have to be different and say it's a boy.

The kids were skeletons for Halloween.


In November Julia took our family pictures and they turned out awesome.  Also, we spent Thanksgiving with the Hamiltons.

Justin and I celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary.

Channing is growing up fast.  He had his first week of Sunbeams.  He wasn't too sure about it and looked like he was on the verge of tears.  But we made it through church with no freak outs!  I think it definitely helped that his teacher had come prepared with fruit snacks.  

Mckenzie is almost 18 months old.  This girl is on another level with her vocabulary.  I don't know what we're gonna do with such a verbal child.  She has the vocabulary of at least a 2 year old!

My brother Jeff passed the NCLEX and became a RN.  And now he's starting a job in the NICU.  So happy for him.  

My parents came to visit for Christmas and I think they got their fill of cold weather and snow.  Mckenzie loves saying "papa".  It was awesome to have my mom or dad get up Mckenzie every morning.  She loves them.  Channing loves wrestling and being swung by his feet by papa.  We went out to eat at Barbacoa with just the adults and I stuffed myself till it hurt.  We went to see the Caldwell lights and almost froze to death.  Mom helped Ryan pull out his first loose tooth.  We went to our usual Souper Salad for dinner.  Then the guys went to a FMT class.

At Barbacoa

Hot Rock Filet

Caldwell lights


For Christmas Eve Day we met up with the Hamilton's to go bowling.  Then we had Christmas Eve dinner at their house in Caldwell.  We were planning on leaving at 7pm so we could get home to do some family traditions and get the kids to bed.  But it turned into us spending the night because we were snowed in.  I'm glad no one needed medical attention in the middle of the night or we would've been screwed!  I was sad to not be at home for Christmas morning since I had lots of things planned for the kids but we're lucky to have good family to host us for the night.  They really worked hard making our Christmas morning special.  We finally made it home on Christmas day at 1:30pm.  Everyone was so exhausted.  Then we had an amazing prime rib dinner at the Crawford's house.

If you're wondering what we did for New Years...absolutely nothing.  Okay, not totally nothing.  We did take down our Christmas tree and decorations.  Justin caught mine and Channing's cold and so we stayed home all weekend.  



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